Alaina is a 26th-century data linguist and a historian specializing in 15th-century Turkey. Working with a quantum computer called Nexus, a machine able to record history in real time, she longs to be like the woman she observes, a red-head warrior temptress. But when an anomaly appears, and a peasant from the past is teleported into the future, anyone involved begins to be reassigned or disappear.Alaina finds herself thrust into the history she’s been studying when her godfather, the Director of Operations, chooses to lose her in time rather than eliminate her.Alaina transports from a culture of peace and abundance to a world of scarcity and violence. She will have to navigate 15th-centur...

With some outside, unwanted pressure, range detective Bob Morgan decides to return to the city and investigate a group with a little too much power over those building that city and the railroad leading to it.

How long has this been going on?

Smuggling humans and drugs and selling “protection”?

Big business is funding the outlaw?

Small business is funding the outlaw?

Police are outnumbered ten to one?

Government funding is an insignificant fraction of outlaw income?

How to protect the people and the future?

THE GIRL WHO DISAPPEARED is a fact based romance set around World War 2 “A Tale of Love and Survival”.In the tumultuous era of the 1930s and the chaos of World War II, a young woman, Emily, finds herself in a whirlwind romance. Despite her father’s disapproval, she falls for Walter, a man whose charm is matched by his resolve, and they elope. Her actions see her struggle to survive the devastation brought about by the war, as she and her four-year-old son are thrown into the midst of danger and death.When Walter enlists, he transforms into a stern army officer, leaving Emily longing for the man she fell in love with. Can their love withstand the test of time and war? The Girl Who Disap...

Nine short stories and twelve rhymes covering a span of 170 years.What has changed from the 1790s to the 1960s?Who are some of the people who created what we now see?What are some of the ideas, philosophies and accepted norms concerningFamily, community, history, inclusion ……People of the West: A Short Story Timeline is a captivating collection of nine short stories and twelve rhymes ……….The stories are beautifully crafted, each offering a unique glimpse into a specific moment in time …………… characters are well-developed, bringing the past to life in a way that is both engaging and thought-provoking.………. the inclusion of rhymes, ………. provide a welcome contrast ...

The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).“Perhaps no other historian has ever rendered the struggle for Sumter in such authoritative detail as Larson does here.”—The Washington Post“Even history buffs will find much that is new here.”—The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionOn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding ...